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		<title><![CDATA[Total WordPress Optimization • Search Engine Optimization • WordPress & SEO •  WordPress security • PPC • Psychology • WordPress Design • WordPress Installation - Security Plugins]]></title>
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			<title><![CDATA[Security Tips To Protect Your Site]]></title>
			<link>https://totalwpoptimization.net/showthread.php?tid=2961</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2015 07:42:55 +0200</pubDate>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[<a href="https://totalwpoptimization.net/member.php?action=profile&uid=1204">TonyF</a>]]></dc:creator>
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			<description><![CDATA[Keeping a WordPress site up to date is vital, this ensures that all your active plugins are also kept up to date. Some fear that updating WordPress or plugins will break things, but a hacked site is the most common outcome from outdated versions. Having validated backups is vital for ensuring your website can recover from any issue. Test your backups, ensure that you not only know how to restore your site, but that the backups were successful. Store them off-site in a cloud storage account.<br />
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Use WordPress security plugins and services that keep hackers out. Having a password that is long, complex, and not easily guessable is the best security practice of all. Change your passwords every three to six months to limit the possibility of someone hacking or using old passwords you used to use. Another common way a site can be attacked is from allowing rogue users to have unnecessary access. Periodically go through and clean out your WordPress users. Many times there are old users that will still have unlimited access.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Keeping a WordPress site up to date is vital, this ensures that all your active plugins are also kept up to date. Some fear that updating WordPress or plugins will break things, but a hacked site is the most common outcome from outdated versions. Having validated backups is vital for ensuring your website can recover from any issue. Test your backups, ensure that you not only know how to restore your site, but that the backups were successful. Store them off-site in a cloud storage account.<br />
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Use WordPress security plugins and services that keep hackers out. Having a password that is long, complex, and not easily guessable is the best security practice of all. Change your passwords every three to six months to limit the possibility of someone hacking or using old passwords you used to use. Another common way a site can be attacked is from allowing rogue users to have unnecessary access. Periodically go through and clean out your WordPress users. Many times there are old users that will still have unlimited access.]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[Why Use A Security Plugin]]></title>
			<link>https://totalwpoptimization.net/showthread.php?tid=2960</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2015 07:17:05 +0200</pubDate>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[<a href="https://totalwpoptimization.net/member.php?action=profile&uid=1204">TonyF</a>]]></dc:creator>
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			<description><![CDATA[Whatever you may have heard, the core WordPress software is very secure. So why do you hear about WordPress sites being hacked? These security breaches occur not because of a vulnerability in the WordPress software, but  because of weak passwords, vulnerabilities in plugins or themes, and not keeping the software up to date. If Sony and Apple are getting hacked, nothing is ever 100% secure. So you want to take steps to make your websites as secure as possible.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Whatever you may have heard, the core WordPress software is very secure. So why do you hear about WordPress sites being hacked? These security breaches occur not because of a vulnerability in the WordPress software, but  because of weak passwords, vulnerabilities in plugins or themes, and not keeping the software up to date. If Sony and Apple are getting hacked, nothing is ever 100% secure. So you want to take steps to make your websites as secure as possible.]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[Prevent your WordPress install from participating in pingback DDOS]]></title>
			<link>https://totalwpoptimization.net/showthread.php?tid=2364</link>
			<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2014 14:45:57 +0100</pubDate>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[<a href="https://totalwpoptimization.net/member.php?action=profile&uid=170">Darren</a>]]></dc:creator>
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			<description><![CDATA[How to prevent bots and spammers from using your WordPress installation for DDOS attacks.<br />
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<a href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/remove-xmlrpc-pingback-ping/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">http://wordpress.org/plugins/remove-xmlr...back-ping/</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[How to prevent bots and spammers from using your WordPress installation for DDOS attacks.<br />
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<a href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/remove-xmlrpc-pingback-ping/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="mycode_url">http://wordpress.org/plugins/remove-xmlr...back-ping/</a>]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[Which security plugins to use]]></title>
			<link>https://totalwpoptimization.net/showthread.php?tid=171</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 17 Dec 2013 17:47:47 +0100</pubDate>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[<a href="https://totalwpoptimization.net/member.php?action=profile&uid=82">Claire Walker</a>]]></dc:creator>
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			<description><![CDATA[I have never had any problems with my Wordpress installation, but I guess it might not hurt to do a little extra. Does any one of you have any recomendations?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I have never had any problems with my Wordpress installation, but I guess it might not hurt to do a little extra. Does any one of you have any recomendations?]]></content:encoded>
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